Full name: The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos

Author: Gaston Bachelard Year: 1960 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Poetry, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780807064139 0807064130

In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of reference. In his earlier book, The Poetics of Space, Bachelard considered several kinds of "praiseworthy space" conducive to the flow of poetic imagery. In Poetics of Reverie he considers the absolute origins of that imagery: language, sexuality, childhood, the Cartesian ego, and the universe. Approaching the psychology of wonder from the phenomenological viewpoint, Bachelard demonstrates the aurgentative potential of all that awareness. Thus he distinguishes what is merely a phenomenon of relaxation from the kind of reverie which "poetry puts on the right track, the track of expanding consciousness" Similar books: The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Goldstein The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer Philosophy For Dummies by Tom Morris Introduction to philosophy by Jacques Maritain Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead Philosophy by Philip Stokes An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings by Ludwig Wittgenstein The Last Word by Thomas Nagel Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson Spinoza by Roger Scruton The Heart of Philosophy by Jacob Needleman An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy by Roger Scruton Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Richard H. Popkin The Little Book Of Philosophy by Andre Comte-Sponville The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard